After Hua Xi was surrounded by his tribe and returned to the tribe, he saw a scene that made him very happy. Men and women of the Shui Tribe, old and young, were standing on both sides of the guardrail door, extending to the meeting room representing the highest power building in the tribe.
The water tribe warriors who came back from hunting with Hua Xi in the straw shed quickly joined the queue after delivering the captured goats and hares.
A few meters in front of the door of the meeting hut, there were some unknown fruits and bacon placed on a large wooden table that had been slightly repaired. Hua Xi suddenly realized that this was a grand and grand celebration ceremony.
Hua Xi can deeply understand that in this era, a little food is a luxury for primitive people with low productivity. In winter and other harsh weather seasons, no one knows how many ethnic groups starved to death.
If Hua Xi had an almost magical power when he killed wild dogs, coyotes and other wild beasts that posed a strong life threat to the tribe a few days ago, then this time he brought back a large amount of food without harming anyone.
, they are simply "gods" to them. Under the circumstances of low productivity, low understanding and knowledge of all things in the world, primitive people often use miracles to praise and record the power of conquering nature. Hua Xi came to Youshui Tribe.
A series of actions were painted with a deep mythological color by the tribe, and the resulting personal worship also brought about the rise of the early god-making movement. Hua Xi knew that in this ceremony, his prestige was even greater than before.
The status of the clan leader has also become more stable.
This is a good opportunity to promote the rattan net. Hua Xi's hands, which were a little trembling with excitement, slowly grabbed the rattan net, raised it above his head, and shouted loudly: "Net, net, net..." There were people from the Shui tribe below who were very enthusiastic.
Following Hua Xi's shout, "Net..."
In the next few days after the ceremony, a production climax of weaving rattan nets was set off. The power of the rattan nets gave the tribesmen hope of survival. By collecting and cutting down thin trees and vines, more people were growing grass poles. The tribesmen in the tribe were weaving rattan nets.
You can see it everywhere (the tribe's land is only about the size of a palm), but the tribesmen do not have the concept of "spacing". The meshes woven are large or small, triangular or round, long or square. After Hua Xi's practical demonstration for three consecutive days, the tribesmen
I finally understood the role of meshes with different spacing. As more and more rattan nets were produced, the tribesmen captured more and more prey, and the number of casualties also increased from three or five at the beginning to zero casualties later. Now there is no need to go out to hunt.
Hua Xi led the team. The tribesmen are very capable of learning hunting skills. After the fifth day of Hua Xi leading the team, Hua Xi felt ashamed that he had no face to continue to stay in the hunting team.
With the help of the vine net, Hua Xi reduced the hunting team from the original 30 people to 20 people, and divided it into two 10-person teams, led by two tribesmen who were more flexible and thoughtful. As for Ziding and Shi Chui,
He kept one with him in case of emergency. The food brought back by the hunting team every day also increased from 7 goats, wild boars and other medium-sized animals to a stable number of about 10-15. Sometimes they even captured one or two bison.
Social division of labor can promote the development of social productivity. It is said that only those who are capable can achieve the greatest benefits by occupying their positions. Hua Xi has always believed in this.
There are a total of 35 young and middle-aged men in the tribe. Hua Xi except for the captains of the two hunting teams who will not change, the rest of the team members will be replaced every three days. As for the three vacant places, they will be selected from 21 children.
The children are longer, stronger and more flexible to make up for the hunting period. These children watch and learn hunting skills in the trees or next to adults. Because they are in primitive society and are embarrassed by the environment, population and other factors, Hua Xi takes advantage of the situation and determines all men and women over 16 years old.
As adults, they need to engage in all the physically demanding activities of the tribe. Those under 16 years old need to help the tribe with tasks such as gathering fruits, firewood, curing bacon, cutting food, etc.
During the day, the hunting team went out to hunt, while the rest of the group was responsible for raising more and more goats, wild boars, bison, pheasants and other animals in captivity according to Hua Xi's demonstrations and instructions. However, Hua Xi did not know how to raise these future livestock and was afraid of raising them to death.
Feeling distressed, he ordered the tribesmen to tie the animals under some trees and let them find food on their own. When it was close to dusk in the afternoon, all the tribesmen had to participate in the javelin throwing competition, and the top 10 were rewarded according to their ranking.
Meat, the javelin-throwing craze in the clan was booming for a while, which led the clan members to throw javelins, and the stone's aim continued to be accurate.
As the food continues to increase, the physique of the Shui people also continues to strengthen. The originally sallow and thin skin, the sunken eye sockets and cheeks gradually become plump and rosy, and the muscles gradually become plump and strong. This is what Hua Xi likes to see. If he wants to solve the problem for the tribe in the long term,
To ensure a stable supply of food, we must embark on the sustainable development of farming and animal husbandry through breeding and planting.
After a period of contact, Hua Xi will vaguely feel that the biggest change in the tens of thousands of years from primitive society to our modern society is the rapid growth of vocabulary, while pronunciation will not change much. Hua Xi estimates that part of the change in pronunciation is
The pronunciation is different because of the different regions of human ancestors; and part of it is probably because there were many nomadic people in ancient times and they moved around, causing the pronunciation to be mixed with the pronunciation of different places. However, if you listen carefully a few times, you can still roughly guess what it is.
What does it mean? Feeling this, Hua Xi plans to promote Mandarin well after the safety and food of the tribe are guaranteed in the future. Even so, Hua Xi no longer needs Ziding to act as an interpreter when communicating with the tribe. He
He can already communicate with his tribesmen relatively easily. All he has to do is increase the vocabulary of the tribesmen, that's all.
With the continuous and stable supply of food, a bad situation has arisen in the smoking of bacon. That is, the shelf life of bacon is not very long. If it wants to last for a long time, it must be prepared with salt and other things. Hua Xi used to buy vegetables at Wal-Mart.
He briefly looked through the recipes for making bacon. He had forgotten the other things, but he knew that the most basic thing was salt. Logically speaking, the tribe’s land is at the source of the river, so walking along the lower reaches of the river would definitely be enough.
Once we find the outlet to the sea, making salt should not be a problem. Could it be that the tribesmen don’t know how to make sea salt at all?